Longest Day, The

And to accompany it, here’s The Longest Film. Lots of star turns here but we can’t help feeling that it’s all a little pointless. By the time all the characters are introduced you settle down to watch them do something and then…that’s it. Finito. Robert Mitchum is the best on show here and there are some genuinely disturbing parts regarding the landing themselves, particularly as the landing craft drop their doors and the bullets fly in, that don’t need Private Ryan splatter-tactics to get their point across.